http.cat is surprisingly useful because of the short url. Typing in e.g. http.cat/422 beats any other method I know for quickly looking up status codes by number.

httpstatus.es/404 works too, but it's less fun.

If you are using DuckDuckGo then it doesn't get much quicker than typing:

  !http 422

Just type in "error 422" and a Google snippet tells you what it is. Saves 3 characters, doesn't depend on a single website, and returns a more descriptive paragraph instead of some silly image with no relevance...

Disagree. It effectively does depend on a single website.

I just entered "error 422" into DDG and got a useful result so if you interpret the parent post as "use your favorite search engine" then it doesn't depend on a single website.

And for something non-critical I would rather depend on a quirky independent website than on google. I want the internet to be more than six companies dominating everything.

Dumb question, but how does this work? .cat isn't listed as a TLD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...

It's listed, but under geographic TLDs[1] because it's Catalonia's TLD.

Interestingly this TLD only allows website that "to serve the needs of the Catalan Linguistic and Cultural Community on the Internet"[2] which is why http.cat also offers a Catalan version[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom... [2] https://domini.cat/en/rules-of-the-cat-domain/ [3] https://http.cat/?lang=cat

.cat seems to be a non-geographic TLD focused on the Catalan-speaking community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat

amazing! thanks